This is just ruling. This informs everything we have been talking about for years. Europe has finally made its voice known of what is happening in Russia in terms of protecting people’s sexual identity.

However, she doubted that Russia would change the law, as she said that Russia’s Constitutional Court could throw out European rulings. Although, she did add that:

We could finally appeal this discriminatory law.

Yesterday, a Russian religious leader claimed that shaving your beard could you make gay, and Vladimir Putin said that it was his duty to block same-sex marriage to:

Uphold traditional and family values.

Meanwhile, in Chechnya, there’s an ongoing gay purge, in which gay men are rounded up, and tortured in concentration camps – it’s been reported that, so far, 26 people have been killed.